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thingziliketoo
·Congratulations, this has been on my short list. Great watch
20 Years in the Making... My Monaco has Arrived!
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jaguar11
·Big congratulations on your acquisition of an icon of a wristwatch. Wear in the best of health!!!
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drockadam
·Stunning! Huge congrats. Love this model so much! Would like to get one some day
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Mspeedster
·A few photos from the last few days. Went out in the Bullitt last night and hit up Woodward.
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jacinabox
·Congratulations Mike!
I'm starting to warm to this model despite its, IMO, 'oddities' I've got my brain trained to accept the winder being on the wrong side, that's not a deal breaker now. The horizontal indices...my eyes don't bleed as much as they used to last month😉
Enjoy your new watch and you're a fortunate man having a generous and understanding wife. Mine still calls my Monaco's 'clown watches' 🤨
I'm starting to warm to this model despite its, IMO, 'oddities' I've got my brain trained to accept the winder being on the wrong side, that's not a deal breaker now. The horizontal indices...my eyes don't bleed as much as they used to last month😉
Enjoy your new watch and you're a fortunate man having a generous and understanding wife. Mine still calls my Monaco's 'clown watches' 🤨
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MonacoMike
·Congratulations Mike!
I'm starting to warm to this model despite its, IMO, 'oddities' I've got my brain trained to accept the winder being on the wrong side, that's not a deal breaker now. The horizontal indices...my eyes don't bleed as much as they used to last month😉
Enjoy your new watch and you're a fortunate man having a generous and understanding wife. Mine still calls my Monaco's 'clown watches' 🤨
I can absolutely understand how for some it just looks all 'wrong'. It flies totally against the convention of what a "normal" watch is. For some, there's an immediate "How can wrong, be so, so right?" - that was me, 20 years ago, haha.
For others, it may take a little longer. The indices are something that I think have a very different look in the flesh, and in 3-dimensions than they do in photos. I think they look really awesome, in general, but I can see how they seem "odd". But in person, they seem to work with the design of the watch even better. They're mostly there to fill the negative space left from fitting a round movement in a square case, but now that I've spent a few days staring at this thing, I feel they work even better.
And after seeing a Cal 02 model at my AD the other day as well, I'll go out on a limb and say that to my eye, the horizontal indices work WAY better on a Monaco than the radial ones do.
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MonacoMike
·Here's another question for all of you Monaco-heads...
Was it important do you that your AD completed the back of the little Steve McQueen booklet that came with your watch? Mine did not, but I may see if I can go back and have them do it.
I'll never sell this watch, but I still feel like it would be good to have all of the papers in order and with the watch, anyways.
Was it important do you that your AD completed the back of the little Steve McQueen booklet that came with your watch? Mine did not, but I may see if I can go back and have them do it.
I'll never sell this watch, but I still feel like it would be good to have all of the papers in order and with the watch, anyways.
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Mspeedster
·Here's another question for all of you Monaco-heads...
Was it important do you that your AD completed the back of the little Steve McQueen booklet that came with your watch? Mine did not, but I may see if I can go back and have them do it.
I'll never sell this watch, but I still feel like it would be good to have all of the papers in order and with the watch, anyways.
However in your case, seems like you'd want to have your AD fill it in for you. Not because it means anything if you sell it, but because the watch & papers means something special to you. 👍
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MonacoMike
·Mine was also left blank. But it's not important to me. The booklet in my Monaco 50th Anniversary Edition is different and doesn't even have a page for the purchase date & dealer stamp. Neither do the booklets in some of my other TAG Heuer watches, so it's not something I dwell on.
However in your case, seems like you'd want to have your AD fill it in for you. Not because it means anything if you sell it, but because the watch & papers means something special to you. 👍
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Pitfitter446
·I don’t remember seeing that booklet with mine, will need to check, changed from my Monaco to my Carrera today, took a few hours to realise I had it on wrong, crown inwards, watch upside down, it does prove that retirement suits me , I hardly check the time now, I just eat when hungry and drink when dry.
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Mspeedster
·I don’t remember seeing that booklet with mine, will need to check, changed from my Monaco to my Carrera today, took a few hours to realise I had it on wrong, crown inwards, watch upside down, it does prove that retirement suits me , I hardly check the time now, I just eat when hungry and drink when dry.
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MonacoMike
·I don’t remember seeing that booklet with mine, will need to check, changed from my Monaco to my Carrera today, took a few hours to realise I had it on wrong, crown inwards, watch upside down, it does prove that retirement suits me , I hardly check the time now, I just eat when hungry and drink when dry.
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OttoWilliam
·Congrats ! 👍
Great choice of a watch !
Great choice of a watch !
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